windyshores,
The endocrinologist and the rheumatologist both said “Evenity.” I had had a sketchy history with Forteo and Tymlos in the past. By sketchy, I mean that I only used each of them for six months. This was because my insurance at that time didn’t cover them. There was a nephrologist here who had made osteoporosis her specialty. She got me six months of Forteo from a drug rep. I had had a dexa at her office and was waiting for someone to call me with results. Finally, the doctor called me - from rehab - to cheerfully say that I had gains. She had fallen at home and broken her neck!
The irony. She told me that when she returned to office in a few weeks, we would figure out how to get more Forteo.
A couple of weeks later, her nurse called me to say that this lovely doctor had died, but had six months of Tymlos in the frig that she had wanted me to have.
I picked it up and used it, but then did nothing for two years. So, I had a lot of bone loss.
If I want to make a grown man cry, I bring up the nephrologist at my visits with the rheumatologist. 🙂
I never had any side effects from either the Forteo or the Tymlos.
Please forgive the long post. Originally, I meant to respond to the question about my numbers not being so bad before Evenity.
The right hip a year ago was
-2.2 and the right femoral neck was -3.2. As I said, those are now titanium, so non-issues.
It seems easier to just replace all of it with titanium. And, cheaper.
Onward to Reclast! I hope my side effect luck has not run out.